The Reason Everyone Wore Red to This Year’s Met Gala

The Reason Everyone Wore Red to This Year’s Met Gala

For the stars who wanted to follow the Met Gala theme, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between, there were several ways to go about it. Rihanna and Tracee Ellis Ross both wore full-on Comme des Garcons looks, while some celebrities just incorporated red into their outfits. Why that color? One of the key themes in Kawakubo’s work is the use of scarlet, specifically pertinent in her Fall 1988 collection. The move to a brighter tone came at a time when she designed mostly in black, leading Kawakubo to declare that “Red is the new black.”